Neelan is president and COO of Tasktop, where he manages sales, marketing, and business development, and guides the company’s mission to connect the world of software delivery. He also serves as a mentor at the Capital Factory and serves as an advisor to several startups around the US. He has extensive technology management experience, serving as the COO of Lexcycle (acquired by Amazon), COO of SpringSource (acquired by VMware), and President of SolarMetric (acquired by BEA Systems).

Im excited about returning to TechEd for the first time in 3 years. In 2011, I attended my first TechEd in Atlanta. It was an exciting time for Tasktop; we had just announced Visual Studio support for Tasktop Dev and were a couple months away from announcing Tasktop Sync, our flagship integration hub for the …

We’ve spent the last decade watching the shifts and trends in an industry that is eating the world. Software is increasingly becoming the basis for competitive advantage in nearly every industry. As Tasktop has evolved from an organization that focused solely on the developer to an organization that is now focused on the end-to-end aspects …

Lets be honest. I dread the “What do you do?” question in a bar or party setting. If I ever have to go beyond the “business manager in a private software company” line when introducing myself, the reaction is one that, at best, is an “Oh…” More likely, the person just looks for the first …

Well fortunately, there was no fiscal cliff (though the U.S. government did nothing more than my 4 year old son; it just kicked the can down the street) and somehow there was a day after even though the Mayan calendar just stopped. As such, I feel a little more comfortable writing a retrospective blog that …

No, Mik is not joining politics nor has he started writing a book. Along with Paul Jacobs, David Kelley, Reid Hoffman, Ben Horowitz, Vinod Khosla, Neal Stephenson, Kara Swisher, Elon Musk, and approximately 90 others, he is a finalist in The World Technology Awards albeit in different categories. When you look at the incredible names …

At this year’s Agile ALM Connect sub-conference of EclipseCon 2012 Mik Kersten moderated a very lively analyst panel with a few of the leading analysts in ALM: Melinda Ballou of IDC, James Governor of RedMonk and Dave West (then at Forrester). Enjoy.

As someone who has lived in and around the Austin entrepreneurial scene for nearly the past decade, I am very excited about Tasktop’s new Austin office. In all the companies that I’ve managed while living in Austin from SolarMetric to SpringSource to Lexcycle, this is the first time a company I’ve been involved with had …